Term 3 Week 3 2023
- Principal's News by Ange Padgett
- Team Mango We All Belong!
- Prep News by Michelle Alcorn
- Year 1 News by Melinda White
- Year 2 News by Kylie Vaughan
- Year 3 News by Ellaine Warner
- Year 4 News by Danielle O'Brien
- Year 5 News by Emma Crawshaw
- Year 6 News by Ben Mills
- Curriculum News
- Sporting News by The PE Department
- Community News
Thank you Team Mango
Thank you to all parents, staff and students for welcoming me to the school. I am thrilled to be a member of the Mango Hill team and school community. Thank you to those who have taken the time from your day to introduce yourself to me. I look forward to getting to know members of our school community as the term progresses.
I have been fortunate enough to work with Mango Hill over the past four years through our work in the Critical Friends Network. This work involves seven schools coming together to explore and deepen our understanding in curriculum, teaching and learning. This work has provided me with a good understanding on the explicit improvement agenda being driven at Mango Hill State School to maximise each students’ potential. I look forward to visiting classrooms and progressing this work.
Semester 1 Award Ceremonies
Last week I had the pleasure to attend some of the Awards Ceremonies this week. Congratulations to all award recipients. Thank you also to parents, carers and families for making the time to celebrate with us. The sheer number of students receiving awards clearly displays that there is a strong culture of learning alive at Mango Hill! Once again, congratulations to all deserving students.
Staff Professional Development
Our school is hosting another two days of Berry Street Professional Development. Berry Street is a model that provides strategies that enables teachers to increase engagement of students and aims to improve students’ ability to self-regulate, develop sustainable relationships, increase wellbeing and academic achievement. We have made a large investment by training a large number of staff members.
School Opinion Survey
Parents should now have received an email requesting their participation in the School Opinion Survey. The survey is designed to obtain views of parents/caregivers, students and school staff on what we are doing well and how we can improve. The survey doesn’t take long to complete and is confidential. It would be appreciated if you could take some time to complete this survey in order for our school to further improve and meet the needs of our school community.
NAPLAN
Year 3 and Year 5 students took place in NAPLAN earlier this year. Individual student NAPLAN reports will be sent to parents within the week.
I look forward to building a partnership with parents and carers to progress the development and learning of our students, allowing each student to reach their full potential.
Focus of the Week
The Care Class focus that will be delivered this Friday is ’Noticing my feelings’. We will also be consolidating this focus next week.
When children learn how to notice their feelings they are using their sensory awareness, using descriptive language and improve emotional and feeling literacy.
A key aspect of effective self-regulation is the ability to identify emotions and feelings. Sometimes children do not have the words to express how they feel and may act out these feelings in ways that can be challenging. When we can identify and describe our emotions, we can choose strategies to manage them.
Here are some ways that you can help your child act on their feelings in positive ways.
When kids learn to manage their emotions, it leads to positive attitudes and behaviours later in life.
Changes to Payment Window
Please note due to a change in staffing the Payment window will no longer be open on Monday mornings.
Payments can be made anytime via QParents, BPoint, and Qkr! and at the window Wednesday and Friday Mornings 8:00 am to 9:00 am.
Welcome Mrs Padgett to Prep
This week, Mrs Padgett came to visit our Prep classrooms to see our wonderful writing. Our students were very excited to share and showcase their persuasive posters convincing Mrs Padgett to go to the Hub now and borrow their favourite books. During our visits to the Prep classrooms, we love to ask students questions about their learning - What are you learning? How are you going? How do you know? How can you improve? Where can you get help? It can be tricky for our youngest students, to focus their thinking onto their learning rather than what they are doing. But when students can articulate their learning clearly, with intent, then we know there is deep thinking and deep understanding!
We saw wonderful work in each classroom and were very proud of the detail and persuasive language choices they were making. When our students can answer these questions about their learning, it shows that our Prep teachers are teaching thoughtfully, ensuring every lesson intention is precise. As always, I was super proud of our Prep students and their incredible progress in their first year of schooling. What super stars.
Michelle Alcorn
Deputy Principal- Prep
malco14@eq.edu.au
Skip Counting
In Year 1 Land it’s all about skip counting right now. Can your child count in 2s, 5s and 10s? If not, you can help us to practise!
As grown ups with lots of counting experience, we naturally look at the objects or the overall amount and make a quick judgement about the most efficient way to count. Our young friends tend to return to always counting in 1s - not the most efficient way of counting all the time.
Counting in the car, counting as you’re getting dressed, counting as you walk - it doesn’t take long! You can make it into a game, with you saying one and your child saying the other. e.g. “2…” “4” etc.
When you’re out in the real world, use the objects around you. Use the legs on a soccer team to count in twos for example.
Have fun practising all the many ways to count!
Have a lovely week.
Have a great week
Melinda White
Deputy Principal- Year 1
mwhit37@eq.edu.au
Stepping Inside History in Year 2
This term the students in Year 2 have been investigating aspects of the past and exploring how some of these can still be seen today in their HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) lessons. In particular, they have been looking at changes in technology over time.
This week, the students in Year 2 engaged in the Stepping Inside History incursion to help them better understand life in the past. At this incursion students got to:
- experience old phones and appliances;
- dress up in old clothes;
- learn to use nib pens and ink;
- try a typewriter and a slate;
- wash with a washboard;
- make butter and juice; and
- play with old toys.
Check out these students from 2P and 2C enjoying their time at the incursion.
Here were some of the students’ reflections about their experience.
"I enjoyed skipping. I’ve never skipped before. I usually draw in my spare time. This was something new." – Bridgette
"I washed the clothes. I had to rub the clothes up and down the washboard. It was really fun." – Gabby.
"I loved looking through the view finder. I’d never played with a toy like that before. I also liked typing letters on the typewriter." Emmanuel.
"I got to see things that were old. I loved playing with the yo-yo and catch game." - Drew
Have a wonderful week
Kylie Vaughan
Deputy Principal- Year 2
kvaug3@eq.edu.au
Gowth Mindset
Week 3 of Term 3 of Year 3! Last week at our awards ceremony for Year 3, I encouraged students to take small steps towards their goals including a Semester 2 award. Small steps over time really requires growth mindset. When you are engaging with your child, it’s a wonderful opportunity to listen with curiosity for language of a growth mindset or fixed mindset – about their own self or about others. This can open up some great conversations and learning for your whole family.
Learning in Year 3
This term in Science, students are exploring how the Earth’s rotation on its axis causes regular changes, including night and day. They will collect data on the length of shadows created by the sun at different times of the day and share this data in table and graph. Students will also interpret the data and make links to their scientific understandings. The Year 3 teaching team invested time last week ensuring a deep understanding and consistency of the curriculum in Science. Next week, we are excited to have our Starlab incursion. Reach out to your child’s class teacher with any Starlab questions.
Reading
There are so many ways to encourage a love of reading at home. Reading together each evening is one that can bring enjoyment across the family. First and foremost, your child learns that reading is valued in your family and that reading is fun. If you would like some ideas about how to incorporate reading at home, please check in with your child’s class teacher.
Take care and have a wonderful week
Ellaine Warner
Deputy Principal-Year 3
ewarn23@eq.edu.au
Stories From Asia
Our Year 4 students are listening to and reading a range of traditional stories from Asia, comprehending and identifying their key features. They are learning to write their own traditional story set in an Asian country that teaches a lesson or moral. We can’t wait to listen to their entertaining stories.
In Maths, our students are loving the opportunity to problem solve, reason and prove their thinking with their peers. As our Year 4 students continue to learn about fractions this week, students will be solving problems involving fractions in a range of different contexts. You can support your children with this by talking with them about where fractions can be found around your home.
Danielle O'Brien
Deputy Principal- Year 4
dxobr0@eq.edu.au
High Impact Learning
It has been all systems go in Year 5 classrooms this week. Classes have been hard at work to ensure they engage in high impact teaching and learning. I had the pleasure of visiting 5S as they continued their work on creating an imaginative text that maintains a consistent mood and point-of-view in response to a stimulus. They used a ‘Step Inside’ thinking routine to deepen their understanding about the perspective of a character. They had to hypothesize what the person observes, understands, believes, cares about, and questions. They were able to use the precise noun and verb groups they chose during this activity to go back and ‘bump up’ their writing from earlier in the week. It was lovely to see our little authors hard at work and so engaged. Well done Miss Curran and 5S!
Emma Crawshaw
Deputy Principal – Year 5
ewils209@eq.edu.au
Tallebudgera Camp
Our first group of campers returned safely on Friday afternoon after a fun-filled week at Tallebudgera. 6D, 6H, 6M and 6V all departed on Monday morning for their turn to experience the excitement and challenges that camp provides.
While visiting the Year 6 students at camp this week, I was incredibly proud of the way our students displayed the Mango Hill values of Commitment, Excellence, Teamwork, Innovation and Respect. They were challenged each day to work together, support their peers and learn more about themselves.
At the start of this year, our Year 6 teachers committed to set and achieve high expectations, to develop independent learners and leaders. The independence and leadership that we have witnessed from our students over the past couple of weeks has highlighted the impact of this commitment. We look forward to observing the continued display of leadership from the Year 6 students as they progress through their final semester of primary school.
Learning in Year 6
Our Year 6’s spent the past week completing a mini-unit on 3D shape, where they’ve learned about a range of 3D shapes and their features. They then created a new shape by combining prisms and pyramids and described it using mathematical language. It has been amazing to see the creativity of our students as they planned, constructed and described some very complex looking shapes!
Have a great week
Ben Mills
Deputy Principal –Year 6
bxmil3@eq.edu.au
Museum Display
This week in the Hub we have a super display from the Queensland Museum, showcasing some things from ‘the olden days’. Of course for some of us these are actually things from our childhood, but if you were born in the last ten years they might indeed be very old!
Pop on down to have a look and discuss how some of these toys and objects are the same and different to those things that you like to play with or use in your kitchen!
The Hub is open every day from 8.15am and until 3pm every afternoon. We look forward to seeing you soon.
Accelerated Reader (AR)
Congratulations to Cormac who recently reached his goal of reading 1 million words! Cormac is a regular visitor to the Hub and has displayed such commitment throughout the year. We are very proud of his achievements and have added his photo to our special AR display.
Book Week Competition
This term we will celebrate all things books with Book Week. As part of our Book Week celebrations we are holding a special Book Week Competition. We will have lots of super prizes and would love everyone to enter. Even though the entries are not due until 25 August, you might like to start thinking about your ideas now!
Premier’s Reading Challenge
Don’t forget to return any completed PRC forms to the Hub. The challenge continues until the 25 August so still plenty of time to read, read and read some more!!
Have a fantastic week
Suzette Holm, Jessica Rivett
shol0@eq.edu.au
Pine Rivers District Track & Field Trials (10-12yrs)
Best of luck to our 34 students have been selected in the MHSS Athletics team to complete at the Pine Rivers District Track & Field Trials on Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 July 2023. These students each achieved great results in events at the MHSS Athletics Carnival and will now represent the school competing against students from our district. Best of luck to them all!
Mr Hills & Mr Newell, Miss Richards and Mr Lisha
Physical Education Teachers
Positions Vacant
Casual School Crossing Supervisor
Have you ever wanted to be a part of Team Mango…?
Well now is your chance. We are looking for you!
We are in need of a lovely parent or grandparent who can work as a Casual Crossing Supervisor at MHSS.
When needed: 7.45-8.45am and 2.30-3.15pm.
Flexible working days.
Ideally you will already have a Blue Card or be willing to get one.
If this sounds like you, please email bsm@mangohillss.eq.edu.au
